FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

FROM BETHLEHEM TO CALVARY

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The life experience of the Master Jesus, including the Crucifixion, the
Great Renunciation, is reflected in the life experience of all human
beings. We can know and consciously cooperate in the journey which leads
from the place of spiritual birth to the place of renunciation and
resurrection.

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From Bethlehem To Calvary

In her foreword to this book,
the author remarks, "The conscious evocation of the Christ life in the
human heart and our rapid integration into the Kingdom of God are the
immediate tasks ahead, embodying our responsibility, opportunity and
destiny." The five expansions of consciousness by which this integration
and evocation proceed are clearly portrayed here as the correspondences
of the five climaxing experiences of the Master Jesus during His life
in Palestine. These are the five initiations known as the Birth,
Baptism, Transfiguration, Crucifixion, resurrection and Ascension.
Through these five stages on the Way, we follow the Master from
Bethlehem to Calvary. While these initiations are popularly known by
their Christian terminology, within the experience of the spiritual
Hierarchy the fourth and fifth initiations are known as the initiation
of Renunciation and the initiation of Revelation. The
crucifixion experience of the Master Jesus involved Him in the great
renunciation of His own soul, with a resulting revelation in the light
of the Spiritual Triad. These experiences are both symbolic and actual,
setting guideposts along the way of tIre disciple. Some understanding of
these Mysteries revealed by the Christ and the Master Jesus, as They
exemplified the experience of the human soul through the five stages of
its spiritual journey, can be invaluable to individual man facing the
vast span of the same five-fold experience. This is probably the factor
of greatest value and service to the aspirant, setting his feet on the
Path of Return; that the experience of the Master Jesus, including that
of the Crucifixion, the Great Renunciation, reflects through the lives
of all human beings. Through the divine life in us, and as the Christ
principle unfolds in our heart and consciousness, the sons of men walk
the Way of the Cross eventually to become soul-illumined Sons of God.
Knowing something of these things, aware of the spiritual journey before
all men from stage to stage on the Path of Initiation, an exact service
opens before the aspirant. "Service must expand and express itself on
broader and more inclusive lines, and we must learn to serve as Christ
served, to love all men as He loved them and, by the potency of our
spiritual vitality and the quality of our service, stimulate all we meet
so that they too can serve and love and become members of the Kingdom .
. . the call is for sane and normal men and women who can comprehend
the situation, face what must he done, and then give their lives to
expressing for the world the qualities of the citizens of the Kingdom of
Souls; love, wisdom, silence, non-separativeness and freedom."